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READ•WRITE•THINK••• 6-29 October 2009 Birm ingh am Bo o k Fe s t i va l www.birminghambookfestival.org Literary flair with urban spirit… a warm welcome to the tenth anniversary Birmingham Book Festival Our Thanks Go To: Partner Organisations: Special Thanks to our We reach our first decade with our best ever Artist Supporters and OurArts Council England TindalThanks Street Press Birmingham Book Festival. Writers, poets, performers Festival Volunteers BCU Conservatoire RSA Yellow Jersey Design Birmingham Libraries Festival Friends and and many others come to the Festival to share their ClarkePrint Waterstone’s Supporters help the love of writing. Many names will be familiar, but we Rewired PR Sampad Birmingham Book Festival Writers’ Guild of Great Britain and the work it does also feature writers other Festivals overlook: the new, Birmingham Book West Midlands Readers’ encouraging reading, writing the challenging, the gloriously undiscovered. Festival Board Network and thinking. National Academy of Writing There are many opportunities to participate. Workshops for those interested Roz Goddard South Birmingham College in developing their writing and Seminars are a chance to learn more about Lorraine Francis The Drum Danielle Fuller particular writers. Other events are made complete by audiences asking Completely Novel Philip Monks questions, joining in discussions and becoming part of the Festival. Fazeley Studios Amy Seton Tim Thackaberry We are grateful for the support of Arts Council England and our many partners and sponsors, including Birmingham Libraries and South Birmingham College. For information on becoming a Friend or Supporter Our sincere thanks go to all those writers and others who will travel to Birmingham visit www.birminghambookfestival.org to share their work, and to the publishers and agents who offer so much support. Festival PR by Rewired www.rewiredpr.com We hope you enjoy th e Festival Jonathan Davidson - Artistic Director Box Office 0121 303 2323 or www.birminghambookfestival.org Sara Beadle - Programme Director eventsWhat’sworkshops, On seminars & surgeries Box Office 0121 303 2323 or www.birminghambookfestival.org PAGE DATE TIME TITLE VENUE PAGE DATE TIME TITLE VENUE 8 6 Oct 7.30pm Sadie Jones & Kate Pullinger Conservatoire 35 27 Oct 7pm A Pint For The Ghost Library Theatre 9 6 Oct 7pm BBC Radio 4: Poetry Slam Final Conservatoire 36 27 Oct 7.15pm Extraordinary Clouds Conservatoire 9 7 Oct 7.30pm Let Me Tell You Conservatoire 37 27 Oct 8pm Postcard Poets Library Theatre 7 7 Oct 7.30pm Poetraits Exhibition Festival Fringe Lounge (Library Foyer) 38 27 Oct 7pm Writing The Archers Conservatoire 10 7 Oct 7pm John Boyne & Janette Jenkins Conservatoire 38 28 Oct 6pm Emerging Talent: NAW Showcase Conservatoire 11 8 Oct 7.45pm Tristram Stuart: Waste Conservatoire 39 28 Oct 7.15pm Festival Keynote: George Monbiot Conservatoire 12 8 Oct 8pm Tindal St Press: The Booker Trio Library Theatre 40 28 Oct 7.30pm R J Ellory Library Theatre 13 8 Oct 7.30pm Write On Sister The Drum 41 28 Oct 7.45pm Some Girls’ Mothers Conservatoire 14 8 Oct 7.30pm Kate Mosse: Giant Reading Group Conservatoire 42 29 Oct 7.30pm Karen Armstrong Conservatoire 15 8 Oct 6pm Postgraduate Poetry Platform Conservatoire 43 31 Oct 7.30pm Beyond Words The Drum 15 9 Oct 7.30pm Birmingham Poet Laureate Inauguration Library Theatre 16 9 Oct 7pm Difficult Teenagers Fazeley Studios 44-46 10 Oct From 10am Workshop and Surgery Saturday South Birmingham College 17 Nov 10 - 4pm The Writers Toolkit South Birmingham College 18 12 Oct 6.30pm Write On! Awards Conservatoire 19 13 Oct 7pm Helen Cross & Tommy Wierenga Conservatoire 6-7 13 Oct 6.30pm Learned Poetry Performance Festival Fringe Lounge (Library Foyer) 20 13 Oct 7.30pm David Edgar: How Plays Work Conservatoire 21 14 Oct 7.15pm Paint A Vulgar Picture Fazeley Studios 22 14 Oct 7pm Lindsey Davis Conservatoire 23 14 Oct 7.30pm Brian Keenan Conservatoire The RSA is delighted to support the 2009 Birmingham Book Festival. 24 15 Oct 8.15pm Nick Hornby & Lynn Barber Conservatoire _ 25 15 Oct 7pm The Art of Living Series Conservatoire 46-47 17 Oct From 10.30am Seminar Saturday South Birmingham College For more than 250 years the RSA has provided platforms 6-7 19 Oct 7pm BCU Concert: Trio Sonata Tour Conservatoire 26 20 Oct 7.30pm BBC Radio 4: A Good Read Conservatoire for leading public thinkers to explore new ideas and to offer innovative 27 20 Oct 7pm Honouring Samuel Johnson Conservatoire solutions to some of the biggest challenges facing society. 28 20 Oct 6.45pm Surreal In The City Conservatoire 29 21 Oct 6.45pm Beyond The Bubble Anthology Launch Conservatoire Today we combine thought leadership with social innovation to further 30 21 Oct 8pm A L Kennedy Conservatoire human progress and our work is supported by 27,000 Fellows, an international 31 22 Oct 7pm Robert Goddard: The NAW Lecture Conservatoire 32 22 Oct 7.15pm Chisholm Book Launch Conservatoire network of influencers and innovators from every field and background. 32 22 Oct 7.30pm Fourpenny Circus Library Theatre _ 33 23 Oct 7pm The English Journey Conservatoire 34 24 Oct 1pm Readers Afternoon Conservatoire 6-7 26 Oct 7pm BCU Concert : Robert Birchall Conservatoire www.theRSA.org _ Festival Fringe Poetraits Exhibition Conservatoire Concerts A variety of fringe events are taking LAUNCH - In the Central Library The Festival is proud to be hosting several concerts accompanied by selected place during the Festival in the Festival readings by Birmingham Conservatoire staff in the Recital Hall. foyer at 7.30pm Fringe Lounge which can be found in the WEDNESDAY 7 OCTOBER The Trio Sonata Tour Robert Birchall foyer of the Central Library. The exhibition runs throughout the festival MONDAY 19 OCTOBER 7pm MONDAY 26 OCTOBER 7pm Learned Poetry in Birmingham Central Library Featuring Robert Birchall (piano) performs two Annabel Knight - baroque flute and recorder of Olivier Messiaen’s magical depictions An innovative series of animated Performance Ross Winters - recorder of birds and nature from his epic cycle, portraits by local portrait artist Graham Robin Bigwood - harpsichord Catalogue of Birds, followed by TUesdaY 13 OCTOBER 6.30pm Kershaw inspired by poets. Mussorgsky’s fairytale-like evocation Join us in travelling around some of Fringe Lounge: Central LibrarY The portraits feature six of the Midlands’ of Russia, Pictures at an Exhibition. the cities of Europe, with music by Corelli, leading performance poets, including See the results of David Calcutt’s Handel, Telemann and more. Dreadlockalien, Polar Bear and Jo Bell. Poetry By Heart workshop - a short The development of each portrait is Tickets (both events) - £5.50 (£3) Available only at the door performance of much loved and learned revealed through animations set to words by participants of the workshop. audio of each poet reading a specially (see page 45) WEDNESDAY 28 OCTOBER 11am - 3pm commissioned poem. Readers’ day with Library Services at Home Why not come and meet the artist and Look out for other Fringe some of the featured poets at the launch? Unit 14, Gravelly Hill Industrial Park, Tyburn Road, Birmingham B24 8HZ Events that may be Please contact Nikki Bi for details on 0121 303 2895 or email [email protected] announced during the course of the festival Blogging and other digital things: The Festival blog is a good place to keep up with news and reviews of events and books we like. Follow it at http://birminghambookfestival.blogspot.com/. We are also on Twitter (@bhambookfest) and Facebook (Birmingham Book Festival). 6 7 TUesdaY 6 OCTOBER 7.30pm TUESDAY 6 OCTOBER 7pm WEDNESdaY 7 OCTOBER 7.30pm Sadie Jones Poetry Slam Let me andKate Pullinger Final Tell You In Conversation BBC Radio 4 Ophelia in her own words Venue - Birmingham Conservatoire, Paradise Place, Birmingham B3 3HG Venue - Birmingham Conservatoire, Venue - Birmingham Conservatoire, Paradise Place, Birmingham B3 3HG Paradise Place, Birmingham B3 3HG We are launching the Festival in slam style with this dynamic and exciting evening of people performing their work, battling it out for the top spot. All those competing have won heats around the UK and come to Birmingham to stake their final claim… Compered by former Birmingham Poet Sadie Jones wrote screenplays for fourteen Kate Pullinger is the author of several novels Laureate and renowned performance poet Author Paul Griffiths comes to Birmingham years before producing The Outcast, including When the Monster Dies, Weird Dreadlockalien, this event promises to be a to discuss his unusual novel - Ophelia’s her first novel. Her writing credits are an Sister and A Little Stranger. She has also storm of activity and creativity. story told entirely with words she uses eclectic mix, everything from episodes of published two collections of short stories: Please note this event will be recorded to be broadcast in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Paul will be in BBC TV shows to a feature film in 2004. Tiny Lies and My Life as a Girl in a Men’s on National Poetry Day, Thursday 8th October. conversation with Paul Edmondson of the Her current project is a pilot for the Prison. Kate also writes for radio, film and Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, and the BBC series Disorder. The Outcast won for digital media. Her digital work includes event will be punctuated by readings from The Costa First Novel Award in 2008 and The Breathing Wall, an experimental fiction. the text, performed by A former Ophelia. was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in Her latest novel is The Mistress of Nothing. the same year. Small Wars is her second, An extraordinary evening of well known Tickets are free but book early to eagerly awaited, novel. words as you’ve never heard them before.
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